Design and Use of Serious Games

• Game Production.- Three Approaches Towards Teaching Game Production.- Design and Architecture of Sidh – a Cave Based Firefighter Training Game.- Human-Centred Design and Exercise Games.- Children's Involvement in the Design of Game-Based Learning Environments.- Learning.- Designing Serious Games for Computer Assisted Language Learning – a Framework for Development and Analysis.- Competence Complexity and Obvious Learning.- The Attitudes of Finnish School Teachers Towards Commercial Educational Games.- Using Videogames as Educational Tools: Building Bridges Between Commercial and Serious Games.- Social Perspective.- Let's Play Together with the Camera of Your Mobile Device.- AnimalClass: Social Networks in Gaming.- Multiplayer Interface for a Computer-Augmented Learning Game.- Technical Applications.- RACER: A Non-Commercial Driving Game which Became a Serious Tool in the Research of Driver Fatigue.- VIPROSA – Game-like Tool for Visual Process Simulation and Analysis.

From the reviews: "Kankaanranta and Neittaanmaki (Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Finland) provide an eclectic collection of 13 papers focused on the emerging field of serious games ... . The volume is divided into four sections ... . The papers are derived from presentations made at a serious games conference held in 2008 at the Univ. of Jyvaskyla ... . it provides those who are currently engaged in or contemplating serious game development with potentially new insights and issues to consider. Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers/faculty and professionals/practitioners." (A. Chen, Choice, Vol. 47 (1), September, 2009)